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Jessie Burton’s new novel “The Miniaturist,” set amid the rigid piety and rampant greed of 17th-century Amsterdam, tells the story of Nella Brandt—née Petronella Oortman—an 18-year-old left alone in an arranged marriage to a man with a secret. A wedding gift of a dollhouse leads her to a prophetic artist whose miniature figures seem to foretell fortune and doom. Read an excerpt from Chapter 1.

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